Alterations of glycosaminoglycan disaccharide content and composition in colorectal cancer: Structural and expressional studies

Oncology Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 369-375

  Kalathas, Dimitrios ^a   Theocharis, Dimitrios A ^b   Bounias, Dimitrios ^b   Kyriakopoulou, Dora ^b   Papageorgakopoulou, Nikoletta ^a   Stavropoulos, Michael S ^b   Vynios, Demitrios H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer stage; Chondroitin sulfate; Dermatan sulfate; Hyaluronan; Sulfotransferases

Indexed keywords

DISACCHARIDE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HYALURONIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE 4 SULFATASE; SULFATASE; SULFOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DERMATAN SULFATE; DISACCHARIDES; FEMALE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SULFOTRANSFERASES;

EID: 68349099053     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or_00000447     Document Type: Article

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